CoutureCut

Fashion design studio

Trends, drawn into garments people actually wear.

We translate seasonal direction into fully realised concepts — silhouette sketching, colorway development, fabric sourcing, pattern engineering and wearable samples — for fast-fashion retailers, independent designer studios and performance apparel brands.

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Studio dress form draped in sage green fabric beside garment sketches

What the studio does

Six disciplines, run end to end or picked up mid-development when a range needs rescuing.

  • Seasonal trend translation

    Runway, street and retail signals distilled into a directional brief your buying team can actually merchandise.

  • Silhouette sketching

    Flats, croquis and construction notes drawn to your block library.

  • Colorway development

    Pantone-matched palettes with lab-dip tracking across the range.

  • Fabric sourcing

    Mill introductions, minimums, and hand-feel comparisons on shortlisted qualities.

  • Pattern engineering

    Graded, production-ready patterns with tech packs and tolerance tables.

  • Sample creation

    Wearable proto, fit and salesman samples sewn in-house, fitted on a live model.

Lookbook in motion

Scroll sideways through recent development work — concept to sewn sample.

Model wearing a deep forest green tailored wool coat
Outerwear — AW block
Model in moss green knitwear with cream wide-leg trousers
Knit — gauge study
Model in a sage technical performance jacket
Performance — seam mapping
Stacked fabric swatches in forest, cream and brown
Materials — hand-feel
Paper garment patterns, shears and measuring tape on a cutting table
Pattern — grading
Designer sketching garment silhouettes in a notebook

A calm development rhythm

  1. 01

    Direction

    Trend audit against your customer, price architecture and drop calendar.

  2. 02

    Concept

    Silhouettes, colorways and material shortlist reviewed in one working session.

  3. 03

    Engineering

    Blocks, grading and tech packs prepared for your chosen factory.

  4. 04

    Sample

    Proto and fit samples sewn, commented and revised until they hang right.

Have a season to develop?

Tell us the drop date, the price point and the customer. We will come back with a development plan and a sampling schedule.

See how we work